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The deal goes like this: when the world is blooming, when it is most alive, then it can sustain someone like Vax. But when it is her time, when the world is cold and things begin to die, then so must he. No one can escape death. Vax is dead, but he is not gone.

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She doesn’t think about Draco, locked up tight in his big old house with just his mother, his father on trial. Or Astoria, shoulders squared as she saunters through the halls of Hogwarts. She sinks down underneath the water, stubbornly opening her eyes despite the stinging chlorine and lets out a whoop that turns into a cry.

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Beau thinks about the look on Nott’s face—one she’s never seen on her mother’s—and she reaches into a pouch and tosses him twenty gold without really thinking about it. Instinct. Like reaching back for Caleb.

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After realizing two of her friends have different names, Beau's been thinking. How easy is it to change your name? How long it takes before the new one becomes yours?Who better to accidentally bring this up with than Fjord.

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It probably wasn’t the most opportune time, but it was also the only time they had, so Gwen asked him about it halfway down the elevator shaft into Fisk Tower’s secret lab. Noir was leading the way, moving gracefully and monochromatically from elevator shaft to heating vent, Peter Porker in his wake.

“Does she know?” Gwen hissed, knowing his mind—like hers—was still back in the dining room. “Your version.”

“What?” Peter hissed back. “Know what?”

“You know,” Gwen gestured from him to herself, crawling on finger- and toe-tip directly down a vertical concrete wall. “This.”

“Oh,” said Peter. “Yeah, she knows.” He was smiling behind his mask, she could tell from his voice. “She's always known.”